Shorea ochracea (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea ochracea Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 8: 285, pl. 27 (1935).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: raruk
• Indonesia: damar kebaong (Kalimantan), kontoi tembaga (West Kalimantan), maro (south-eastern Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: badau raruk (Sarawak), melapi daun besar (Sabah).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as white meranti.

Observations

• A medium-sized or large tree up to 50 m tall with bole up to 125 cm in diameter and buttresses up to 1.5 m high.
• Leaves broadly elliptical-oblong, 12-18 cm × 7-10 cm, with 25-30 pairs of secondary viens, lower surface bright yellow lepidote, petiole 1.3-2 cm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium absent.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 10 cm × 2 cm.

S. ochracea occurs scattered on well-drained clay soils on undulating land and ridges up to 750 m altitude. The density of the wood is 435-735 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 258, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (white meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)